![]() ![]() Settings: 192MB RAM, 8MB Video, ACPI/VT-x disabled, video cannot go to VESA Note: cannot properly render in nine year old web browsers. Stability: Good! (not that it can do much) Speed: Probably beyond native, since the fastest PC it likely ever saw in it's day was barely a Pentium II Support: VESA video (after last patch), network Settings: 512MB RAM, 8MB Video, ACPI/VT-x disabled, 1400x1050x32 custom video mode Install: Rough, but procedures can be found on Google Note: They still port Firefox and Seamonkey to BeOS but they run VERY slow Speed: Interface feels slow, disk access is pretty bad Support: VESA video (w/3rd party app), network, sound (flaky) ![]() Settings: 512MB RAM, 8MB Video, ACPI enabled, VT-x disabled, 1280x1024x16 custom video mode (I don't use USB so I have it disabled and untested on all guests) What "Other/Unknown" OSs have you tried in VBox? The drop-down list in VBox has OS/2, Solaris, BSD, Netware, L4. That's all well and good, but they get boring after a while. On the group's website, they say that ReactOS was based on the concepts within Windows Server 2003.Virtualbox is great for virtualizing Windows and Linux. I think my concern with ReactOS is that the project probably struggles to keep moving ahead and meanwhile Microsoft's Windows is a moving target that has enormous resources behind it. I didn't have time to see if it could be resolved, but I shall come back to it. Office appeared to freeze at the point where it began the installation. I then tried Microsoft Office 2007, because it's known to be XP-compatible. I tried PureBasic 32-bit out of interest. That isn't a direction I want to follow, so I'm fully in support of anything that empowers users and brings independence. I've become enormously disappointed with Microsoft's direction in recent years, along with numerous other big-tech vendors, in which everything is moving towards a subscription model, a login account to download packages and worse than that - our desktop screens are becoming monetised with advertising and things we don't want. I'm completely behind the concept and hope it progresses well. So it wil improve with every version and become better, until then some things work, others don't. Secondly it's not just a new operating system, it's one with the goal to become compatible to windows. Fristly it's still in beta and will stay for a long time further. ![]() Saying it doesn't work well is not fair, at least that's my opinion. The website indicates the group is active and has recently employed full-time developers. I assumed the version I had was old, because it looks like Windows XP, but in fact it's the latest version. Unfortunately, while the project is no doubt impressive in its objectives and in its achievement, it surely has some obstacles to overcome. I was surprised not to have heard about it before, because although I'm a Linux user, I often thought to myself that a Windows alternative to Linux would solve a great number of problems. It has been written as a binary-compatible platform, presenting all the usual Windows APIs, but it has been written from scratch. To clarify, for those who might not be familiar with ReactOS, it's an open source project to create a Windows-compatible system and work began in 1996. ![]() I certainly don't intend to give up on it, because I can see that it's a very noble project and worth supporting. I put it inside VirtualBox and I can't say it works well for me, unfortunately. I noticed there are a couple of comments on the forum about ReactOS. ![]()
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